Prefatorily, this is entirely my personal speculation based on examining media in the US versus other countries, and my admittedly minor knowledge of history.

Anti-intellectualism did ramp up in institutionalized education in the 70s, especially with the explicit codification of jock vs nerd, but imho this really started as an unfortunate (and later exploited) knock-on effect of anti-bourgeoisie sentiment after the Great Depression and post-war era. The “All-American” working class man stereotype being contrasted against the intellectual is something that didn’t happen in e.g. late 1800s France’s anti-aristocratic and anti-bourgeois streak; people viewed themselves as just as capable of matching the intellect of ‘elites’, rather than turning intellect into a negative attribute.

When we allowed the negative depiction of intellect to permeate entertainment media (in the 50s and especially the 60s), it really set the stage for the current anti-intellectualism we’re steeped in. We start teaching kids from a young age that trying to be good at anything artistic or anything knowledge-based is cringe, or nerdy, or something losers do. I’ve lived in other countries, and you don’t see that same effect, even in ‘macho’-driven cultures.

A constitutional amendment would be ideal, but it’s critical we never allow a full Constitutional Convention (ConCon) to happen, because those have lower ratification requirements than the regular amendment process and any amendment can be introduced regardless of what they originally set out to pass, and I’d be worried that corpo Dems like Schumer would get tricked into going along with one in the name of a “bipartisan win”, and we’d be well and truly cooked.

This was all a pointless exercise. Like, I’m glad Dems fought back, but how much taxpayer money did we spend to arrive at the status quo?

Unfortunately, we’re not quite back to the status quo. The fact that Dems went a different route means that the DOJ could sue the Blue states claiming that ballot initiative changes aren’t valid but legislature-passed ones are, and then tie everything up through the midterms with SCOTUS’s help. Ideally we’d have 3-4 Blue states also do legislature-passed laws that directly mirror Texas’.

I think what actually happened is that Republicans figured that 1) Democrat legislatures would either be too scared to try this unilaterally like Republicans did, or otherwise get overturned by a hostile SCOTUS, or 2) not have enough time before the midterms to make these changes. They definitely didn’t count on multiple states putting up ballot initiatives successfully. SCOTUS could still try some shenanigans, but it would be nearly impossible to justify federally blocking state-level ballot initiatives around administering elections (and Trump has already started pushing federal control, since the midterms clearly aren’t setting up to go the way they want).

My real fear is that this entire exercise has been a distraction, and they’re planning something else to overcome the midterms.

This was a great read.

I think this also explains a lot of Trump’s appeal to a lot of disconnected voters; he’s promising to handle all the things that they (have been conditioned by Fox News to) dislike, without them needing to actually understand those issues, and without ever asking them for their input or requiring them to think about effects or harm or morality. If thinking about politics and economics and inequality sounds exhausting to someone, he’s not just promising to fix things, he’s promising to handle the cognitive load for them. I’ve met so many Trump voters who don’t even know what he’s doing, not because they only follow news that masks his actions, but because they just don’t follow news at all, and just “trust he’s taking care of things”. It’s relief from participation in the everyday political economy.

Also, Revealed Preference Theory is such junk science. Samuelson was just applying what people throughout history have observed about people not always understanding their own preferences, or not wanting to state them openly. It wasn’t supposed to be a way to use individual actions to assert predictive certainty of future actions.

It makes me depressed to think about how much damage has been caused by people who got into a field for the money but who had no aptitude for or understanding of the work, and just ended up wrecking shit. And I’ve met too many c-suite executives to think this is not an endemic issue in our current society. If there’s a better argument for jobs requiring some public proof of proficiency than our current crop of billionaires, business executives, and politicians, I can’t think of it.

Reddit has a wider user base, so much more likely someone in Austin can reach out to help (e.g. order a Lyft).

Well, when your “Christian” morals don’t allow you to get an abortion, you gotta find ways for “God’s Hand” to intervene for you!

“Keep talking,” Patel wrote. “It means I’m doing exactly what I should be doing. And no amount of BS you write will ever deter this FBI from making America safe again and taking down the criminals you love.”

Having to assert weirdly that news orgs “love” criminals to deflect for your actions is just sad, bro.

Stop it. Get some help.

It definitely gives me over watered vibes, but I am just a hobbyist, no expert knowledge. If it’s freshly transplanted, I’d give it a few days and see how it adapts. I don’t know what moisture control potting soil contains (I assume some kind of plant-friendly dessicant?), but it could be reacting to that? I wouldn’t move it around too much more without giving it time to recover after transplanting, tho.

Because it’s one of the only functional monopolies that got there by attracting users rather than M&As to quash competitors and regulatory capture. Monopolies shouldn’t just intrinsically make you angry, they just are usually bad because they will have done anticompetitive things in order to become a monopoly.

As the article concludes:

Valve Corporation didn’t win by locking people in. It won by making sure they never really wanted to leave.

itch.io is okay, but they used to be much better back when they first emerged right after Desura collapsed in 2013, and everyone moved their indie titles there, and before Steam had GreenLight and now Early Access. Now they’ve fallen into a weird space where half of their games’ installers aren’t even hosted on their site and you get redirected to the game’s own website. Humble Bundle has really crappy download speeds, so it’s hard to justify using them over Steam for anything larger than a VN, and half the games you buy on HB they actually just give you Steam keys to redeem anyways.

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The conspiracy part that imo is legit is that his ear was not hit. I’ve seen bullet wounds take chunks out of people, and it’s not a clean cut where you can just stitch it back together with minimal scarring. The bullet either removes a chunk wholesale, or the tissue is violently torn and leaves a very noticeable scar. He has no missing chunk or scar on his ear.

The problem is it was campaign gold for him to claim he ‘took a bullet’ for his beliefs, and his followers jumped on that, and now he can’t just say, “I wasn’t actually shot, I just hurt my ear when SS tackled me tee hee sorrrrrryyyyy”, so his followers are running to thinking the entire thing could have been staged. I’m sure some of them who are having buyer’s remorse would love to pivot to claiming they were duped by an elaborate conspiracy, rather than having to own responsibility for electing him because they themselves are shitty people.

It’s more that compositors (picom, xcompmgr) and window managers are extremely complex, and adding that feature in could have much larger impacts than just the functionality itself, e.g. security context implications, task scheduling, rendering pipeline issues, etc. Wayland actually combines the compositor and WM, so it’s more readily extensible than X11.

State-level bills have heretofore only required OSes to ask a user if they are of majority age. A federal bill is likely (based on the groups backing and who proposed it) to require OSes to validate (i.e. have users prove, not just assert) their ages.

Depending on what mechanisms are mandated, and who they target punishment at, it could lock 99% of users (who are not willing or capable to use means to bypass this) into tying all their actions online to a government-run database.

It’s not enough that means to bypass it exist; the government shouldn’t be able to mandate this kind of control, and shouldn’t be propagating the expectation that this behavior and level of control is normal or acceptable.

At this point, “improving lives” is considered socialism by conservatives, and a far-left pipedream by neoliberals.

“Power isn’t given, it’s taken.” - Malcolm xAI

This is something I see my partner’s high school students having to deal with now: the suspicion that competence or intelligence must indicate AI use. It feels like when dumb film writers or directors make non-MC character unbelievably dumb to make the MC look smart (cough BBC Sherlock cough), but applied to real life.

There’s a combination of poverty, shame, and (misogynistic) cultural narratives that makes Hungarian men very susceptible to manosphere-adjacent toxic masculinity. They actually have their own Hungarian-language mini-manosphere, mostly on TikTok. They need a real economic change before anything else can happen, because (just like with the US) conservatism is great at finding external groups for people to foist blame for their problems on. When you remove those problems, (i.e. increasing education, increasing wealth, increasing access to healthcare, etc) people become less conservative.

He’s a “center-right” nationalist, instead of a far-right authoritarian Identitarian, at least.

It’s been years since i lived in Texas, but if you’re looking for a small chain to support and have a hankering for burgers, Burger Street was always my go-to. I don’t know if they ever grew beyond Dallas/FW area though.

I think the assumption is that buy-to-play MMOs tend to be less microservice-based or ‘cloud native’ than subscription ones, such that they are more likely to already feature a monolithic server application. They’re probably thinking games like ARK: SE, and DayZ, rather than Guild Wars. In reality, some sub-based MMOs have monolithic servers (e.g. Mabinogi), and some buy-to-own MMOs have distributed architectures.

This was probably also an easier sell to politicians, by saying, “hey, they said they sold the whole game for that price, so why can they not deliver the whole game, server included?” With a subscription, it becomes harder from a business ‘rights’ perspective to argue that a player who paid for e.g. 1 month of a subscription immediately before the game is retired should be allowed to then own and operate the full game indefinitely, and then becomes a sort of, “how long paying the sub is long enough to ‘own’ the game?” debate. This is especially important because it could impact a lot of non-game software as well, so politicians are much more likely to quash this out of fear of backlash. So they may just be picking their battles.

WRT market impact, I am sure the shittier companies would use the exemption as a loophole, and just make all their multiplayer games subscription-based. I doubt it will encourage more buy-to-own MMOs in the future as well, but I think SKG cares more about the extant software people paid for already, than the market impact.